Center for Universal Design
The Center for Universal Design (formerly, the Center on Accessible Housing) is a NIDRR-funded Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center that evaluates, develops, and promotes accessible and universal design in buildings and related products.

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Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD enforces the Fair Housing Act and has issued guidelines under this law (the Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines) which cover multi-family housing. These guidelines are available on HUD's website. Information is also available on how to file a complaint with HUD under the Fair Housing Act.

Disabled Dealer Magazine
California & Nevada's #1 Adaptive Resource Guide

Fair Housing Accessibility FIRST
Fair Housing Accessibility FIRST is a new initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) designed to promote compliance with the Fair Housing Act design and construction requirements. The program consists of a comprehensive training curriculum, as well as a toll-free information line and website designed to provide technical guidance to the public.

Home Modification Action Project
The Goal of "Promoting Successful Aging in Place: The Home Modification Action Project" (or HMAP) is to increase the availability of home modifications so that frail older and disabled persons have the choice to age in place and the provision of care can take place in a supportive environment.

Homes and Communities - People with Disabilities
This site, established by HUD, provides links to news, fair housing laws, HUD resources, and other housing information.

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
The association is a nonprofit membership organization that was established in 1890 to empower people who are deaf or hard of hearing to function independently by promoting universal rights and optimal opportunities to learn to use, maintain, and improve all aspects of their verbal communications, including their abilities to speak, speechread, use residual hearing, and process both spoken and written language.

American Association of People with Disabilities
The American Association of People with Disabilities is the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan, cross-disability organization in the United States.

American Council of the Blind
ACB is a national organization advocating on behalf of persons who are blind or have low vision. ACB also publishes "A Guide to Making Documents Accessible to People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired."

American Foundation for the Blind
"The mission of the American Foundation for the Blind is to enable people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve equality of access and opportunity that will ensure freedom of choice in their lives."

Ameriglide Stair Lifts
Offers high quality stair lifts with free shipping

The Arc
The Arc (formerly Association for Retarded Citizens of the United States) is the country's largest voluntary organization committed to the welfare of all children and adults with mental retardation and their families.

The Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work
The Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work is a Canada-wide network of organizations and individuals that promotes and supports meaningful and equitable employment of people with disabilities.

Deaf Initiative in Information Technology (DIIT)
The Deaf Initiative in Information Technology (DIIT) is a project of the Applied Computer Technology Department (ACT), of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology. This project provides retraining workshops to deaf and hard-of-hearing adults already in the national workforce or preparing for employment in the information technology field, clusters these workshops into a certificate program, and modifies the workshops into undergraduate courses.

DisabilityInfo.Gov
A one-stop interagency portal for information on Federal programs, services, and resources for people with disabilities, their families, employers, service providers, and other community members.

Disability Resources, Inc.
Disability Resources, Inc. is a national nonprofit organization that provides information about resources for independent living.

Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
DREDF operates a hotline funded by the Department of Justice to provide technical assistance on the ADA. For ADA questions and publications call 800-466-4232 (voice & TTY)

Disability Statistics Center
The Disability Statistics Center produces and disseminates statistical information on disability and the status of people with disabilities in American society and establishes and monitors indicators of how conditions are changing over time to meet their health, housing, economic and social needs.

Disabled American Veterans
DAV is a national organization advocating on behalf of veterans with disabilities.

Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association
EPVA is a regional chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America serving the needs of spinal cord injured veterans primarily in New York, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Easter Seals
Easter Seals creates serves children and adults with disabilities, their families and communities through early intervention and child development services, vocational training and employment services, and physical medicine and rehabilitation. Easter Seals has more than 400 service sites across the country, including Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.

Environmental Health Network
EHN's focus is on issues of access and developments relating to the health and welfare of the environmentally sensitive and to promote public awareness of environmental sensitivities and causative factors.

The Independent Living Center of Southern California, Inc.

Independent Living Centers
ILCs are typically non-residential, private, non-profit, consumer-controlled, community-based organizations providing services and advocacy by and for persons with all types of disabilities. There are nearly 500 ILC's in the USA. Many are state supported. Their goal is to assist individuals with disabilities to achieve their maximum potential within their families and communities. Also, Independent Living Centers serve as a strong advocacy voice on a wide range of national, state and local issues. They work to assure physical and programmatic access to housing, employment, transportation, communities, recreational facilities, and health and social services. This site provides a list, arranged by State.

Institute on Independent Living
The Institute serves self-help organizations of disabled people who work for self-determination and equal opportunities; provides information, training materials and technical assistance on accessibility, personal assistance, advocacy, legislation and peer support; publishes articles, reports, manuals or comments and other materials related to Independent Living.

International Commission on Technology & Accessibility
ICTA initiates, facilitates and provides information regarding technology and accessibility through the World Wide Web. This information is available to people with disabilities, advocates and professionals in the field of disability, researchers, legislative bodies, and the general community.

National Association of the Deaf
NAD is a national consumer organization representing people who are deaf and hard of hearing.

National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems
A Federally mandated system in each state and territory which provides protection of the rights of persons with disabilities through legally based advocacy.

National Federation of the Blind
NFB is a national organization advocating on behalf of persons who are blind or have low vision.

National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
The Center is a clearinghouse for information on disabilities and disability-related issues concerning children and youth (birth to age 22).

National Organization on Disability
The National Organization on Disability promotes the full and equal participation and contribution of America's 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life.

Paralyzed Veterans of America
PVA is a national advocacy organization representing veterans.

Self Help for Hard of Hearing People
SHHH is a national consumer organization representing people who are hard of hearing and provides technical assistance for selecting Assistive Listening systems.

TASH
TASH (formerly the Association for the Severely Handicapped) is an international advocacy association of people with disabilities, their family members, other advocates, and people who work in the disability field.

TDI
TDI's (formerly known as Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc.) mission is to promote equal access in telecommunications and media for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, late deafened, or deaf blind.

Through the Looking Glass
Through the Looking Glass (TLG) is a nationally recognized non-profit agency that provides direct services, training, materials and research concerning families in which a child, parent or grandparent has a disability or medical issue.

United Cerebral Palsy Association
UCP's mission is to advance the independence, productivity and full citizenship of people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities, through our commitment to the principles of independence, inclusion and self-determination.

World Institute on Disability
WID is an international public policy center dedicated to carrying out research on disability issues and overcoming obstacles to independent living.